[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: kernel-4.0.5-300.fc22

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-9712
2015-06-10 12:49:05
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 4.0.5
Release     : 300.fc22
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel meta package

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Update Information:

Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.0.5.  Wide variety of fixes across the tree.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jun  8 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Linux v4.0.5
* Thu Jun  4 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Backport commit to fix block spew (rhbz 1226621)
- Add patch to fix SMT guests on POWER7 (rhbz 1227877)
- Add patch to turn of WC mmaps on i915 from airlied (rhbz 1226743)
* Wed Jun  3 2015 Laura Abbott <labbott at fedoraproject.org>
- Fix del_timer_sync in mwifiex
* Wed Jun  3 2015 Laura Abbott <labbott at fedoraproject.org>
- Drop that blasted firwmare warning until we get a real fix (rhbz 1133378)
* Wed Jun  3 2015 Laura Abbott <labbott at fedoraproject.org>
- Fix auditing of canonical mode (rhbz 1188695)
* Wed Jun  3 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- CVE-2015-1420 fhandle race condition (rhbz 1187534 1227417)
* Tue Jun  2 2015 Laura Abbott <labbott at fedoraproject.org>
- Fix fd_do_rw error (rhbz 1218882)
* Tue Jun  2 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Fix middle button issues on external Lenovo keyboards (rhbz 1225563)
* Thu May 28 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Add quirk for Mac Pro backlight (rhbz 1217249)
* Thu May 28 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> - 4.0.4-303
- Add patch to avoid vmmouse being classified as a joystic (rhbz 1214474)
* Wed May 27 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> -4.0.4-302
- Apply queued fixes for crasher reported by Alex Larsson
- Enable in-kernel vmmouse driver (rhbz 1214474)
* Tue May 26 2015 Laura Abbott <labbott at fedoraproject.org>
- Fix signed division error (rhbz 1200353)
* Tue May 26 2015 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
- Backport patch to fix might_sleep splat (rhbz 1220519)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1187534 - CVE-2015-1420 kernel: fs/fhandle.c race condition
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187534
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update kernel' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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